[Epidemiologic and social aspects of arterial hypertension in subjects of young age (according to the data of examination of organized groups of employees in Smolensk]. / Epidemiologicheskie i sotsial'nye aspekty arterial'noi gipertonii u lits molodogo vozrasta (po rezul'tatam obsledovaniia organizovannogo trudovogo kollektiva Smolenska).

AIM: To study prevalence of arterial hypertension (AH) in young Smolensk population sample, AH risk factors, awareness of the patients about their disease, treatment compliance. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The in-office study covered 1068 employees. In diagnosis of AH, the patient answered the questions about AH risk factors, attitude to treatment. RESULTS: All was highly prevalent in the examined population (27.9%). Patients under 45 years of age accounted for 38.9% of all the examinees with AH. The risk factors included overweight and obesity (65.5%), smoking (53.5%), family AH history (52.6%). In spite of high awareness about AH (72.4%) and opinion about AH as an important social problem, young patients demonstrate low treatment compliance (12%). This is explained by psychological features of such patients. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to examine quality of life of AH patients aged under 45 years, setting up of special schools to maintain educational activity, psychological and rehabilitation care.

[Experience with the clinical use of a device for the UV-irradiation of circulating blood]. / Opyt klinicheskogo primenenia ustroistva dlia protochnogo UF-oblucheniia krovi.

The article considers the indications and possibilities of using the device for flowing extracorporeal ultraviolet radiation of blood. The uniformity of the radiation of blood in the proposed device provides an annular gap of the quartz dish with the partition in the shape of a spiral. It makes it possible to expose a larger part of the blood content of an organism simultaneously making use of various perfused methods of its detoxication.